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ever.[23] In the latter regard Mrs. Clive's case is revealing in that it gives a new emphasis to the epithet His Majesties' Servants.[24]
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NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1] The Dramatic Congress (London, 1743). Throughout I use short titles.
[2] Three major documents concerning this quarrel are published under the title _Mr. Macklin's Reply to Mr. Garrick's Answer_ (London, 1743).
[3] Mrs. Clive's four afterpieces, with their allusions to her personality and career, are equally revealing. I treat this subject in "An Edition of the Afterpieces of Kitty Clive," Diss. Duquesne Univ. 1968, and "The Textual Relationship and Biographical Significance of Two Petite Pieces by Mrs. Catherine (Kitty) Clive," RECTR, 9 (May 1970), 51-58, and "Kitty Clive as Dramatist," DUJ, N.S., 32 No. 2 (March 1971), 125-132.
[4] James Boswell, _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, rev. L.F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1950), IV, 243.
[5] Dramatic Miscellanies (London, 1785), III, 131, 376.
[6] Quoted by [John Genest], Some Account of the English Stage (Bath: H.E. Carrington, 1832), V, 230.
[7] Memoirs of His Own Life (York, 1790), II, 257. See _Theatrical Correspondence in Death. An Epistle from Mrs. Oldfield_ (London, 1743), p. 7.
[8] _The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq._, ed. William Ernest Henley (New York: Croscup & Sterling Co., [1902]; reprinted Barnes & Noble, 1967), X, 277-278.
[9] For a useful exposition of the 1733 and 1743 disputes in terms of the licensing act see Watson Nicholson, The Struggle for a Free Stage in London (Cambridge, Mass.: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906.).
[10] Percy Fitzgerald, _The Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive_ (London: A. Reader, 1888), p. 24. P.J. Crean, "The Life and Times of Kitty Clive," Diss. Univ. of London, 1933, is, however, the authority on Clive's life. I am indebted to Professor Crean.
[11] Quoted in Mary E. Knapp, Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), p. 69.
[12] Yet, with Fitzgerald (Life, p. 34), I believe that Fielding could have helped Mrs. Clive ready her Case for the press. Certainly the "correctness" of that printed text could not have been achieved by her alone. Cf. Clive's MS letters, Appendix, "An Edition of the Afterpieces."
[13] See Crean, "Life and Times," p. 215. A pertinent example of actors' seeking redress is, of course, the revolt of 1694-1695, described by John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus (London. 1708), pp. 43-44; Augustan Reprint Society publication number 134 (Los Angeles, 1969), with an Introduction by John Loftis, is a facsimile of the first edition.
[14] See Arthur H. Scouten, "Introduction," The London Stage (Carbondale, III.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961), Pt. 3, xcv, cxlvii, and Dramatic Congress, p. 20.
[15] Cf. James Ralph, The Case of our Present Theatrical Disputes (London, 1743), pp. 3, 48.
[16] _The Case Between the Managers of the Two Theatres, and their Principal Actors_ (London, 1743, misdated 1713), p. 20. Cf. An Impartial Examen (London, 1744), pp. 10-11, 21-22. See also the three Queries pamphlets: _Queries to be Answered by the Manager of Drury-Lane_ (London, 1743); Queries upon Queries (London, 1743); A Full Answer to Queries upon Queries (London, 1743).
[17] (London, 1744), pp. 15-16.
[18] Dramatic Congress, p. 22. Thomas Davies, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, 3rd Ed. (London, 1781), I, 90, says of Rich: he "seems to have imbibed, from his very early years, a dislike of the people with whom he was obliged to live and converse."
[19] See Clive's afterpiece The Faithful Irish Woman in "An Edition of the Afterpieces."
[20] See _Mr. Macklin's Reply to Mr. Garrick's Answer_, pp. 18, 29-30, and An Impartial Examen, pp. 10-11.
[21] Nicholson, Struggle for a Free Stage, p. 124; see, too, pp. 83-86.
[22] Crean, "Life and Times," p. 254 n. 1, points out that on the very day of this benefit (2 Nov.) a second notice of Mrs. Clive's Case appeared.
[23] See Nicholson's concluding chapter. For other effects of the licensing act see Scouten, London Stage, cxlvii, and Ralph, Case of the Present Theatrical Disputes, pp. 22, 43.
[24] Since the pamphlets cited here are scarce, some rare, perhaps the following list of locations will prove helpful. Full titles and partial bibliographical information are available in Robert W. Lowe, A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature (London: J.C. Nimmo, 1888), p. 95.
Dramatic Congress, Univ. Chicago, Austrian Coll., PR 3346. C3D7 1743.
_Mr. Macklin's Reply_, Newberry Library, V1845. 54.
Theatrical Correspondence in Death, Harvard, Thr 417. 43. 12.
Case of Present Theatrical Disputes, Newberry Library, Rare Book Room.
Case Between the Managers, Univ. Chicago, Austrian Coll., PN 2596. L6C22.
An Impartial Examen, Harvard, Thr 465. 20. 23.
Queries to be Answered, Harvard, Thr 465. 20. 22.
Queries upon Queries, Harvard, Thur 465. 20. 12.
A Full Answer to Queries, Harvard, Thr 465. 20. 12.
Disputes between the Director, Univ. Chicago, Austrian Coll., PN 2596. L7D832.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The facsimile of _The Case of Mrs. Clive_ (1744) is reproduced from a copy of the first edition (Shelf